Seychelles

The Misuse of Drugs Act, 2016 classifies cannabis as a Class B controlled drug and defines it as any part, including the seeds, of a plant of the genus Cannabis from which the resin has not been extracted, so viable seed is directly controlled. The Act prohibits cultivating outdoors or growing by enhanced indoor means any cannabis plant, with maximum penalties reaching thirty years' imprisonment. The 2016 reform introduced a more health-oriented sentencing approach than the previous 1990s regime but did not decriminalise cannabis or create any hemp or medical seed channel. Selling, acquiring or gifting germinable seed therefore remains an offence.